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This study provides an overview of the development of a computer simulator that quantitatively evaluates the effectiveness of evacuation guidance methods for tourists. The majority of previous studies have focused intensively on the movements of targeted residents in disaster sites, with only a very limited investigation being conducted regarding visitors such as tourists and business people. This study focuses on a simulation support system for disaster places of refuge in large tourist areas. In the simulation for supporting an evacuation guidance targeting tourists, simply simulating a large number of movements of tourists is difficult because their actions are very varied and the area is wide. Therefore, we propose a simulator based on cellular automaton in which colors are assigned to the cells to present the simulation results in a visually comprehensive way. Moreover, in this simulation, we conducted an evaluation regarding the assignment and optimal number of colors. In this study, we also present our interviews with experts about our system.
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Naka, T., Izumi, T., Kitamura, T., Nakatani, Y. (2020). Evaluation of the Visibility of Color Representation for Cell-Based Evacuation Guidance Simulation. In: Ao, SI., Kim, H., Castillo, O., Chan, As., Katagiri, H. (eds) Transactions on Engineering Technologies. IMECS 2018. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9808-8_5
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